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How can I learn from Who Are We?
Society, Politics & Law

How can I learn from Who Are We?

...creative ways. On the website we have documented some of the engagements between artists, academics, activists and participants in the event and beyond. Some of these include media materials and image galleries and short videos, showcasing some of the installations. [Media gallery from Who Are We?] The media gallery Giota Alevizou, the lead author in this unit, also has...
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...creative ways of representing statistical information in graphics which are admired to this day. To give people a realistic sense of African American lives, he used both a plain factual way of writing and a descriptive style of writing full of rich imagery. Du Bois famously commented in his collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk “The problem of the twentieth...
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...writings of his friend Charles Dickens. Gowan Dawson offers an historical overview of Owen, noted British anatomist and paleontologist, and suggests Dickens incorporated Owen’s paleontological analogies into his own “compositional practices” as a response to criticism of his serial novels. Dickens’s early works were often criticized for an “absence of design,”...
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...creative methods workshop organized by Umut Erel (Lecturer in Sociology, at the Open University) in cooperation with the Migration Museum Project in London. Taking place just a few days before the referendum, and incorporating a breath-taking exhibition on everyday life in Calais’ ‘Jungle’ camp, the workshop opened up a space for collective reflections on the uses...
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...writing poetry, Sassoon kept a diary during his war years, and after the war he wrote a semi-autobiographical novel. These writings are an example of how a writer can use language for different purposes and different audiences, while expressing the same theme – in this case, opposition to war. Before we look more closely at Sassoon's work, we need a few more details...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...creative, passionate, mysterious A bit about me: Love first touched my soul at the mere age of 8 when I set eyes upon my distant cousin Mary Duff. I was later to learn of her marriage, and ‘it nearly threw me into convulsions…sometimes I doubt if I have ever been really attached since.’ (The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Thomas...
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...writing and speaking language skills. Section 5: Language and culture – ideas for three short plays or sketches. Section 6: International Christmas – an exploration of the many and different Christmas traditions around the world, as an example of the connections between language and culture. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...writing and develop your understanding of the challenges of demonstrating critical awareness of a subject area. It will also help you to communicate original ideas or a new perspective clearly and within coherent structures, making use of appropriate scholarly and research literature. You will explore the need to draw on theories, models, frameworks and evidence to...